BLEUnlock
Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices (by ts1)
macOS-enterprise-privileges
For Mac users in an Enterprise environment, this app gives the User control over administration of their machine by elevating their level of access to Administrator privileges on macOS. Users can set the time frame using Preferences to perform specific tasks such as install or remove an application. (by SAP)
| BLEUnlock | macOS-enterprise-privileges | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 41 | |
| 2,361 | 1,240 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 5.2 | 4.1 | |
| 11 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| - | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
BLEUnlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of BLEUnlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-20.
- Question about location based system lock
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Lock Mac when walking away
I’ve used BLEUnlock before, worked really well. Uses Bluetooth low energy to figure out the proximity of your phone and locks based on that.
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Applications for locking Mac/iPhone/iPad when we leave them wearing an Apple Watch?
I found a good choice: BLEUnlock, but this is only available on Mac.
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Possible to request password/touch-id after sleep but NOT after screensaver?
I think this was the one I used to use https://github.com/ts1/BLEUnlock
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Intel WiFi Card & Apple Watch Unlock: success on latest Monterey!
I'm not the author of the following macOS app, but I share my findings here just in case you didn't know yet a such useful app: BLEUnlock on GitHub for simplifying our hackintoshes' life with not natively fully supported cards (who says Intel...)... (here the reason for this post in this section!)
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I wish we could also have an option to "Lock Mac" like with our iPhone to prevent someone from unlocking it and using it.
This app has some cool options for Bluetooth devices, incl watch and phone.
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Alternative to Near Lock !
Look at this one
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2FA
Something like this?. Looks like that might work if the Oura periodically sends out a static MAC address. Haven't tested it though. Sounds cool.
- Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone based on proximity
- Under desk iMac fingerprint scanner!
macOS-enterprise-privileges
Posts with mentions or reviews of macOS-enterprise-privileges.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
- Administrator Accounts for Users
- Simple App to help Mac Admins
- Microsoft Enterprise SSO Plug-in and Tiered Accounts
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MacOS user profile management inquiry
Also, if you need them to have admin rights, you can use something like https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges
- MacOS: Grant temp admin rights to user from a Company Portal application
- Allow non-admins to manage Location Services
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Can we hide the orange dot without disabling SIP?
> For technically-inclined users, I'm still largely unconvinced of the value of SIP.
Problem is technically-inclined users are the ones most likely to not be running "defense in depth" and therefore susceptible to zero days such as the H.264->code execution discussion earlier this week.
Arguably, technically-inclined users participating in the software supply chain should go beyond SIP and run in Lockdown mode permanently, both on the dev machine and any mobile devices used for MFA, or at the very least self-install SAP's "Privileges" or equivalent that requires a deliberate unlock to act as Administrator.
https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges
This helps* prevent drive-bys with persistent payloads without the extra attack surface that is commercial AV or anti-malware.
* Helps prevent, not prevents.
- macOS privileges, quick and easy way to get administrator rights when needed
- Using an admin-account for daily work, really that bad?
- Admin rights and PAM
What are some alternatives?
When comparing BLEUnlock and macOS-enterprise-privileges you can also consider the following projects:
BlueCap - iOS Bluetooth LE framework
MakeMeAnAdmin - Provides temporary admin access for a standard user via Jamf Self Service